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Transportation is expected to play a major role for the next president’s tenure with Trump’s plan to spend $1 trillion to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure.

“While enjoying the praise and admiration of her colleagues [in the Bush administration], she also invited scorn from organized labor, whose leaders accused her of being too cozy with business interests,” the New York Times reported.

Chao, who immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan when she was eight, is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnnell, which could at least give the appearance of a conflict of interest as the Trump administration seeks to push its transportation agenda through Congress. She is said to be a close political adviser to her husband.

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Chao began her career in government as a White House Fellow under President Ronald Reagan in 1983. She went on to serve on the Maritime Commission in the Department of Transportation under Reagan and deputy secretary of transportation under George H.W. Bush.

Reagan administration alum and conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin did not seem pleased with Trump’s choice of Chao as secretary of transportation, posting a two word response on Facebook: “I’m speechless.”

Levin’s sentiment is probably based on Chao’s deep establishment ties, including to McConnell, for whom the conservative has often expressed disdain calling him a “liar” and a “sleazy good for nothing.”

On his program last week, Levin said, “I have a serious question. Will Trump be more Nixon or Reagan?”

He contrasted the policies of the two. Nixon is seen as a Big Government Republican, who established the Environmental Protection Agency and instituted price controls. Reagan of course famously intoned during his first inaugural address, “In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem” and then implemented policies that limited the federal government’s size and scope.

As reported by Western Journalism, Trump continues to receive negative feedback from conservatives as he considers former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney for secretary of state.